Gorilla Guide Webisode By ActualTech Media Supporting a Remote Workforce: Policy, Technology and Reality
Gorilla Guide Webisode
IT pros are used to requests seemingly at odds with reality, but rarely are such requests more necessary than what many have dealt with in recent weeks. As countries, counties, cities, schools, businesses, and organizations of all shapes and sizes come to grips with their own current realities, many are turning to IT in a desperate bid to ensure ongoing business continuity.
Many organizations have plans to support some level of a remote workforce, but, as we’re discovering, these plans didn’t often include essentially abandoning on-premises environments and pushing the entire workforce into remote offices and homes basically overnight. Even as companies shut down their facilities, IT pros are working overtime to figure out how best to support this shifting paradigm.
As former IT pros and CIOs ourselves, ActualTech Media’s principals truly understand what everyone is facing, from decision makers to IT pros, and we wanted to find a way that we could provide some assistance to members of our extended technology community.
ActualTech Media is engaging IT vendors and independent experts, including ourselves, to provide actionable advice that we’ll intersperse during the event to ensure that all attendees walk away from this event with broad knowledge that may help them more quickly solve the key challenges that they are facing.
During this event, you will
- Discover how to get your work from home environment underway or expanded
- Learn where you may have holes in your current policies and technologies
- Hear from vendors that may be able to help you accelerate and secure your deployments
Agenda & Speakers
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Nutanix Frame - The Next Generation Application and Desktop Delivery Solution for the Multi-Cloud World
Ruben Spruijt Sr. Technologist, former Frame CTO Nutanix
About This Session
Would you like to deliver virtual applications in 5 easy steps? Frame is a Desktop-as-a-Service (DaaS) solution that lets you access your apps on any device and from any location. See how easy it is in this live demo!
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How Citrix Workspace brings the best user experience for customers to work anywhere, anytime
Johnathan Campos Product Marketing Manager Citrix
Adam Lotz Director of Product Marketing, Virtual Apps and Desktops Citrix
About This Session See how Citrix employees themselves are working remotely in times of change and how Citrix Workspace enables them to work anywhere, anytime.
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Top 5 Tips for Work from Home Mastery
Ned Bellavance Microsoft Azure MVP, Author Pluralsight
About This Session
Veteran IT consultant, Microsoft MVP, Pluralsight video training author, and successful podcaster - Ned Bellavance - explains his top 5 tips for WFH Mastery that you should adopt to ensure long term happiness and efficiency while working from home!
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It Takes Two: Making Remote Work
Zoe Lindsey Security Strategist Duo Security
About This Session
When user credentials remain a key target for attackers, how do you keep users safe when their work happens outside your network? Join us for an introduction to the tenets securing remote access with multi-factor authentication and how you can easily integrate this system into your own security strategy!
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INCREASE REMOTE WORKER PRODUCTIVITY NOW WITH WORKSPOT CLOUD DESKTOPS
Brad Peterson Vice President Workspot
About This Session
A turnkey solution on any azure region, at a Flat fixed fee. See how Workspot is uniquely positioned to quickly deliver full cloud desktops and GPU-accelerated cloud workstations as a complete turnkey service across any of the 58+ regions of Azure globally - and all from a single pane of glass at a flat fixed subscription fee.
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Live Q&A Panel
Johnathan Campos Product Marketing Manager Citrix
Ruben Spruijt Sr. Technologist, former Frame CTO Nutanix
Zoe Lindsey Security Strategist Duo Security
Brad Peterson Vice President Workspot
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Make Working from Home Work
Melysha Acharya Director of Marketing Liqid
Phillip Clark VP of Engineering Liqid
About This Session See how Liqid's software-defined composable infrastructure solutions can improve data center hardware utilization for increased VDI usage and other architectural challenges, and better manage valuable compute resources and accelerators such as GPU and NVMe storage in order to minimize barriers to collaboration during this unprecedented transition to remote work.
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Why Office 365 Backup is Essential for Remote Workers
Edward Watson Principal Product Marketing Manager Veeam
About This Session
With a massive influx of remote workers, businesses more than ever before are storing, sharing and accessing data within Microsoft Teams, OneDrive for Business as well as Exchange and SharePoint Online, and that data needs to be protected. Learn why!
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CIO's Perspective: Enabling BYOD and WFH in the Enterprise
Tim Crawford CIO Strategic Advisor Avoa
About This Session
Work from home (WFH) and bring your own desktop (BYOD) sounds great, as an employee but what does it take to make it perform, make it secure, and ensure compliance in the enterprise? In this session you'll hear from veteran CIO, Tim Crawford with his unique perspective!
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HOW TO: QUICK ENABLEMENT FOR HOME AND REMOTE DESKTOP ACCESS
Alan Conboy Office of the CTO Scale Computing
About This Session
Learn how to setup a connection broker and gateway, how to connect desktops to the broker remotely, and how to enable end users to connect to remote desktops via any browser. Learn how Scale Computing can make work from home easy and affordable!
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Karen Gondoly CEO, VP Product Management Leostream
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Live Q&A Panel
Melysha Acharya Director of Marketing Liqid
Edward Watson Principal Product Marketing Manager Veeam
Karen Gondoly CEO, VP Product Management Leostream
Alan Conboy Office of the CTO Scale Computing
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Speed the Adoption of your Work From Home Practices with Adaptive Workspace Management
Jason E. Smith VP of Products Liquidware
About This Session
Supporting your new Work from Home users with the apps they need is made easy by rapidly on-boarding or growing your existing virtual Windows Workspaces such as workspaces from Amazon, Citrix, Microsoft and VMware. Liquidware will cover how to make the user experience seamless, applications readily available and ensure that users are productive.
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Tools & Tips for a Secure Remote Workforce
Jay Ryerse VP, Cybersecurity Initiatives ConnectWise
About This Session
Jay Ryerse, CISSP, has 25+ years of experience in cybersecurity, IT and providing security solutions for SMBs. He'll share suggestions on establishing and maintaining a secure workforce and explain how ConnectWise Control can help.
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Top Tips to Work from Home
Ruben Spruijt Sr. Technologist, former Frame CTO Nutanix
About This Session In this energized session Ruben will share his 15 tips to 'work from home'. Ruben has more than 15 years experience in working from home. His tips and tools will help you to stay healthy (mentally, physically), be a great family member, find the right work-life integration (which is better than work-life balance) and overall enjoy what you do now and in the future.
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MANAGING THE WFH EXPLOSION
John Worthington Director of Customer Success eG Innovations
About This Session
How eGinnovations can help to manage the explosion of WFH users, from an IT veteran who has been working from home for more than 2+ decades!
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Endpoint Data Protection Has Never Been More Important
David Ngo CTO Metallic, A Commvault Venture
About This Session
Together with its partners, Metallic, a Commvault venture, offers a growing portfolio of SaaS backup and recovery solutions to help today's companies keep their data protected, compliant and safe from deletion, corruption and attack. With the current rise in remote working, it is now more important than ever to have a backup solution that protects data on laptops and desktops.||readmore|| In this presentation, David Ngo will explore the critical components of data backup, specifically for endpoints (laptops and desktops), introduce Metallic's range of SaaS offerings, and demo its Endpoint Backup and Recovery solution, providing companies with an answer to their data backup needs.
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Live Q&A Panel
Jason E. Smith VP of Products Liquidware
Jay Ryerse VP, Cybersecurity Initiatives ConnectWise
John Worthington Director of Customer Success eG Innovations
David Ngo CTO Metallic, A Commvault Venture
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Yama Habibzai President & Chief Operating Officer HiveIO
About This Session
Enabling the new Virtual Economy of remote workforce with Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Technology - the future of personal computing
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Providing secure, easy to use remote desktops via open source
Mike Jumper CEO and Co-Founder Glyptodon Enterprise
About This Session
This presentation will outline how to overcome key barriers for providing remote teams with secure, fast and easy-to-use remote desktop access at scale using open source software. We'll also provide some best practices and tips for remote access.
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To Be Announced
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Live Q&A Panel
Yama Habibzai President & Chief Operating Officer HiveIO
Mike Jumper CEO and Co-Founder Glyptodon Enterprise